Turpentine-hack.



No. 884,854; PATENTED APR. 14, 1808.

G. E. RAYFORD.

TURPENTINE HACK. APPLICATION FILED OO'LZI, 1907.

W/TNESSES INVENTOR.

D E. RAZCORD,

ATTORNEYS )[HE NORRIS PETERS cu. WASHINGTON, 0- cv UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CLYDE EDWIN RAYFORD, OF ST. ELMO, ALABAMA.

TURPENTINE-HACK.

Application filed. October 21, 1907.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CLYDE EDWIN RAY- FORD, a citizen of the United States, and resident of St. Elmo, in the county of Mobile, State of Alabama, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Turpentine- Hacks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention is in the nature of an improved turpentine hack, or implement for grooving or chipping the bark and wood from pine trees to permit of the exudation of the turpentine.

My invention consists in a symmetrically made hack having two hook-shaped cutting edges and two holding lugs and inthe com bination of the same with the handle whereby the longevity of the implement is increased, a simpler, better and stronger connection is made with the handle and the work of chipping the trees is done in the most approved manner.

In the drawing, Figure 1 is a perspective view of the hack blade, and Fig. 2 is a side view partly in section of the hack blade and handle connected together.

Referring to Fig. 1, A represents the hack blade which is formed with the usual hook portion a. In my invention the hack blade is sharpened on both of the hook-shaped edges, as seen at A and A From the shank of the blade there are two oppositely projecting arms I) l) which at their outer ends have offsetting and right angularly projecting lugs b b. The hack blade as thus constructed is a double one, with perfectly symmetrical sides and edges and either of the sharpened gouge-like edges A and A may be used, so that if one is broken or worn out, the blade may be reversed and the other one used, the symmetrical construction of the arms I) b and lugs 12 b permitting this to be done as hereafter described.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 14, 1908.

Serial No. 398,344.

Referring now to Fig. 2, B is the handle or stock, which is a stout and heavy round stick and which may have the usual metal ball on the end of it to impart weight and momentum to the blow. This handle is grooved out longitudinally at a point about one inch from the end, and in this groove fit the arms I) b of the hack blade, while the lugs b b are received into deeper seats at the ends of the groove. A bolt or rivet C extends through the handle and intersects the groove near each end at a point just inside the inner edge of each of the lugs to form hard bearings for the lugs and a clamp collar D with tightening bolt 6! extends around the inner arm I) of the blade and the handle and locks them tightly together, only one such clamp collar being required with my construction of the hack blade. As the two sides of the blade are exactly alike, it will be seen that it is readily reversible if one side should be damaged or worn, and the position of the blade at a distance from the end of the handle compels the workman to make the right kind of stroke to make the best out.

I claim:

. 1. A hack blade having two opposite hookshaped cutting edges and two oppositely projecting shank arms with two offsetting lugs.

2. A hack consisting of a handle having a groove cut longitudinally in its side at a distance from the end and a double hookshaped blade having shanks and lugs entering said groove, a transverse bolt intersecting the groove near each end, and a clamp collar embracing the shank of the blade and the handle.

oLYDE EDWIN RAYFORD.

Witnesses OWEN FARLEY, JOHN Focus. 

